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title: But who can have left it here?" and she looked round about, as if th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But who can have left it here?" and she looked round about, as if the person it belonged to must be not far off. Who acts: woman, pot. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 96

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But who can have left it here?" and she looked round about, as if the person it belonged to must be not far off.

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**Who acts:** woman, pot · **What happens:** leave, look round, belong, not be · **To what, where:** pot, person

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, pot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:19:96
# text = But who can have left it here?" and she looked round about, as if the person it belonged to must be not far off.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	off	off	ADV	RB	_	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | can · perfect · passive |  | pot |  | here |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute |
| 2 | **look round** *in a quote* | past | woman |  |  |  |  | about, round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **belong** *in a quote* | past | pot | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | must | pot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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